Dyptics - on display at Caronaimmagina Born into a Central European Jewish family in 1928, Horvat lived in Switzerland, Italy, Pakistan, India, England and France, where he settled in 1955, while continuing to move around Europe, working frequently in New York and traveling to various countries in Asia. Horvat acknowledges that he was strongly influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson. After meeting him in 1950, he followed his advice ("God didn't put eyes on your belly"), replacing his Rollei with a Leica and embarking on a two-year trip to Asia as a freelance photojournalist. His photographs from this trip are widely published and one of them is included in the Family of Man, at MOMA in New York. In 1957, Horvat moved into another branch of photography, shooting fashion for Jardin des Modes. But he holds 35 mm cameras and uses available light-which previously had rarely been used for fashion. The innovation is welcomed by ready-to-wear designers because it presents their creations in the context of the everyday life for which they are intended. In the following years he is commissioned to do similar work for Vogue in London, Harper's Bazaar in New York and Elle in Paris, and his path is followed by others. The only criticism comes from his master, Cartier-Bresson: "You must not mix directive and non-directive photography! What you do is pastiche!"
Georg Gerster "Height creates overview, overview facilitates insight, and insight creates-perhaps-consideration. "Georg Gerster For more than fifty years, the pioneer of aerial photography has flown in more than 117 countries, in all 6 parts of the earth and on all continents. With his camera he captured the landscapes below and made visible their beauty, but also their destruction, by man. His work is unique and timeless. Georg Gerster initially worked as a freelance publicist, focusing mainly on scientific reportage. From 1959 he began as a photographer, combining image with text. In addition to his fantastic aerial photographs, Georg Gerster could have filled entire pages of books with his experiences and anecdotes. From pilots who, out of sheer joy, turned off their engines over the Iranian mountains and switched to gliding, or from trying to retrieve with a fishing rod a seaplane that had gone off course on a river in the Amazon jungle because the water was teeming with piranhas. It was the beginning of a career that showed us breathtaking views of landscapes, hills or islands. Georg Gerster created the image of flight from aerial photography, but it was only over the years that he discovered its aesthetic and intellectual potential. However, it was precisely this potential that made his images unique.
Riccardo Comi Riccardo Comi is an independent, self-taught Luganese photographer. A street photographer, Comi is constantly looking for interesting, special situations that can excite. He develops his research with curiosity and passion thanks also to the continuous stimuli coming from observing the shots of appreciated and already established international photographers. In 2016 Riccardo Comi attends a workshop in Venice organized by InQuadra with photographers Alex Liverani (finalist Master of Photography 2018 and founder of InQuadra) and Matteo Sigolo - an important and inspiring experience. Also in 2016, he developed the photographic project "Walk in The Shade"; this work, made in Lugano with only the use of an iPhone phone, reached the Top 100 worldwide on the LensCulture website. In 2017, "Walk in The Shade" qualified as a finalist in the Lugano Photo Days competition and was published in the prestigious EyeShot Magazine in 2019. In 2017 and 2018, Comi was a finalist in major international competitions such as the Street Foto Festival in San Francisco and the Italian Street Photo Festival in Rome. Riccardo Comi is also the creator and founder of the Ticino/Swiss collective Instant. "The world should be traveled and observed solely on foot, only then do you really realize the great spectacle you have before you." Riccardo Comi https://www.riccardocomi.photography/
Allievi di 3a4a5a Scuola elementare di Ponte Tresa e Sessa Siamo gli allievi di due pluriclassi di 3a4a5a di Ponte Tresa e Sessa. Quest’anno ci siamo appassionati alla fotografia perché il nostro direttore ci ha regalato una Polaroid con il compito di immortalare i momenti significativi che viviamo a scuola. Per imparare i trucchi, i segreti, le tecniche utili a diventare più bravi e consapevoli nel fare buone fotografie, abbiamo affrontato le missioni proposte dal “Manuale di fotografia per ragazzi” di Anne-Laure Jacquart. A Ponte Tresa abbiamo deciso di usare le foto per raccontare chi siamo e per presentare la nostra scuola. A Sessa abbiamo documentato il nostro percorso sulla coltivazione del mais. Di foto ne abbiamo scattate moltissime. Le abbiamo guardate, osservate, discusse, scelte, scartate, tagliate, rifatte, confrontate, difese, criticate e selezionate, per portare il nostro meglio a CaronaImmagina.